Low Carb Summer Pasta Salad

Low Carb Summer Pasta Salad

This salad is the perfect summer meal especially, for someone following the low carb lifestyle.
To be honest, I love pasta. We try to have a pasta night every week. When I make pasta, I always make extra so that I can use the leftovers in another meal.

This Salad is the perfect recipe for using up leftovers.
I would totally know this right? You could make your pasta fresh as it would only take about 20 minutes to make it and allow it to cool in time to use in a salad. However, having it already made, and cooled, can certainly cut down on the time it takes to make a meal especially when you are in a pinch for time.

This can also be made in advance.
We all know that this is forever-loved item in just about every pot-luck, summer picnic, or barbecue. Imagine how impressed everyone will be when you show up with a low carb version of this.

You can buy pasta that is low carb.

That would be the secret ingredient in this recipe. While you may be avoiding it due to the carbs in it,this one is okay when you are sticking to a low carb dies. This is Atkins approved as well.

There also other ingredients that you will need for this recipe.
This recipe calls for cherry tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes are small and only contain about 1/2 carb in each. So, slice them up and toss them in- just not too many.

We are also adding low or no carb ingredients.
These items, such as cheese, are foods that you would normally find in a low carb recipe. They will add add color, texture and bulk to the salad. Add these optional foods as optional items to personalize your salad. You can make this into a vegan or vegetarian by personalizing with optional ingredients.

The optional items should correspond with your phase if you are following the diet itself.

Optional items could include:

Olives

Mushrooms (pickled in vinegar work well)

Marinated Artichokes

Broccoli

Celery

Avocado

Zucchini

Cucumber

Asparagus

Bacon

Tuna

Shrimp

Lobster

Cilantro

Kale

Spinach

Most of all we have plenty of options. You can choose from many more low or no carb items that can be added as well. I know that there are many that I am partial to yet, not listed above. Thus, this can be easily personalized since there are a lot of low carb choices..

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